Category: Vancouver
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HoCho Fest Day 15: Aloha Sweetie
Another lovely day in the homeland – very chilly, but bright and sunny. It was a nice day to go have brunch with the first year family, and then go home for a few hours to celebrate the birthdays of more family! JA’s brunch. My brunch! Oatmeal cooked in apple juice. As I was very…
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HoCho Fest Day 14: Caffe Shakerato Con Cioccolato
Two weeks! I’ve passed the halfway mark.Happy February 1st! Today’s post is likely to be short, as this festival item was not quite my ‘thing’, and I didn’t finish my half of the drink! It was just a little too much for me, as it was like a chocolate bar that melted and was put…
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Help! Perpetuating the Chocolate Glory
A simple (but personally valuable) favour to ask: I ask that you please “like” the following photo on Facebook to help me in my endeavour to win the City Food Magazine’s Hot Chocolate Festival Photo Contest! Details about the contest are on their website. I would greatly appreciate this simple act on your part, as…
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HoCho Fest Day 13: Twisted Romance
What a sunny day we had here!With good company at my side, today’s hot chocolate festival visit took me to a spot I visited during last year’s festival: Gem Chocolates. To the unprimed eye, one may mistake the location for a small Bell outlet, based on its simplistic white and blue exterior – but when…
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HoCho Fest Day 12: The Jamaican Kiss
A field trip downtown for myp hot took me nearer to some of the farther off locations of the festival, so I took advantage of this spare time and went to the Vancouver Convention Centre – such a beautiful place! I went in the wrong entrance, so I got to detour through a lower level…
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HoCho Fest Day 11: Magnifique Brunette
A wonderful end to the previous evening left me feeling relaxed today, a day where I had very little going on in the middle of my day, but commitments that required me to return by a decent hour to get things done with wifi available. I decided upon a more eastern location for hot chocolate…
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HoCho Fest Day 10: The Campfire
The day’s gray weather seemed to reflect my mood: Nothing too extreme, but somewhat low energy, and very much conducive to collapsing into a nap. This was not an ideal mental state with an interview later in the afternoon, but what better to help remedy a melancholy wave than with a cup of hot chocolate?…
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HoCho Fest Day 9: The Intimate Act
Today was a slightly unpleasant day for my physical well-being – body aches, nasuea, foggy-headedness. The foggy weather made my state feel very real, but I trudged through the beginning of my day and wondered whether or not it was wise to get hot chocolate, particularly from the nearby location (due to time constraints) that…
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HoCho Fest Day 8: The Evita
Ah, the beautiful day arrived when it came time to go to Bella Gelatería! This was probably my favourite stop from last year’s hot chocolate festival, and this year it seems they somehow stepped up their game.. In a couple of ways. gBAR flavoured with salted caramel – Argentina style. Served with Erin Ireland’s “To Die…
In a Tizzy 